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Re: The Official Pacers Digest F.A.Q. Thread

Briefly, PFFL = Pacer Fan For Life.

He was an avid pacer fan and a poster at Rats probably from the very beginning. His posts were memorable not so much for basketball insights but for their humor and a seemingly endless collection of hilariously funny personal anecdotes.

One thing he was very passionate about was that Isiah Thomas was a terrible coach. There were many debates about this fact, and after the last playoff disaster at the end of the 2002-03 season PFFL was absolutely convinced that an Isiah firing was inevitable. As I recall, he felt so strongly about it that he vowed to give up on his life-long love of the team if Isiah was not fired.

Well, Donnie Walsh gave Isiah the old public "vote of confidence".

PFFL was furious- that night on the forum he "went PFFL"

Now he was known for his humor, stories, cleverness, and not for any huge temper. But... he came onto the forum and berated the Pacer organization with every 4-letter word you can think of, basically begging to get banned. He was. Then he went on his wife's account and did the same thing, getting the IP banned. Personally I didn't see this, because the posts all got deleted fairly quickly (overnight?) and that was apparently one night I was not on the forum.

Of course a few months later Larry Bird came on board and Isiah was immediately fired. PFFL never came back though. "Going PFFL" is a total all-out burst of rage that apparently ends your fandom forever.

Of course over the years many here felt attached to him for all the funny moments and stories (Guys like Peck and Scott can more attest to this), but he dropped off the Earth to never return. Now and then someone here thinks a new RATS poster might be him, but it never seems to fit. When you go PFFL, I guess the rage is permanent, even if the cause of the rage disappears.

Re: The Official Pacers Digest F.A.Q. Thread

You're very, very close to the mark, pacertom. I will paste that in and add the fact that he DID briefly appear on Pacers Digest waaaaaaaaay back in the early days. I'm talking August/September 2003. But he soon left again.

Re: The Official Pacers Digest F.A.Q. Thread

That is truly the greatest story of a Pacer fan going ballistic I have ever read.

BRAVO pacertom!

Thanks- As Hicks mentioned, I might be wrong on some of the details, since it happened in the summertime and I perhaps wasn't on the forum quite as often as some at the time, and didn't have the personal friendship with PFFL that some people (Peck, I believe?) had, or any contact in forum gatherings. I wasn't aware that he made a brief appearance on PD either, so perhaps someone else can take my beginnings of the story and flesh it out with more details, or recall some of his hilarious stories-- there was one that was something about a road trip to Philadelphia, in which he was making out with his wife (or future wife) in the stands, all while both were wearing Pacers gear and taking abuse from the typically obnoxious Philly fans.

Re: The Official Pacers Digest F.A.Q. Thread

Thanks- As Hicks mentioned, I might be wrong on some of the details, since it happened in the summertime and I perhaps wasn't on the forum quite as often as some at the time, and didn't have the personal friendship with PFFL that some people (Peck, I believe?) had, or any contact in forum gatherings. I wasn't aware that he made a brief appearance on PD either, so perhaps someone else can take my beginnings of the story and flesh it out with more details, or recall some of his hilarious stories-- there was one that was something about a road trip to Philadelphia, in which he was making out with his wife (or future wife) in the stands, all while both were wearing Pacers gear and taking abuse from the typically obnoxious Philly fans.

I think somebody got stabbed on the Philly trip.

Ah, the good ol' days.

You're caught up in the Internet / you think it's such a great asset / but you're wrong, wrong, wrong
All that fiber optic gear / still cannot take away the fear / like an island song

Re: The Official Pacers Digest F.A.Q. Thread

As a n00b, I have a request. Can you insert all the nicknames for players that people use...at least current/past Pacers? I picked up most over time, but sometimes I read some and am left scratching my head.